This is an analysis of the poem To You that begins with:
I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut
That will solve a murder case unsolved for years...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXbaXXXXbaccccbcXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101011 10101010110 0101001000101010 1111010100 0101011101 100110110100 10111110111111 0101011011110 11010111100110 00111101110 01111101111011 1111110001110001111 11001110011 11011111010111 111010111110 01110110101 100011111011101 00111 01000101111 11111001110101 011001011111 01000101001011011001110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, love, so, i, you are repeated.
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- summary of To You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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